Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Swiss Navy

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was redirect to military of Switzerland, with disambig link per George Herbert. fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 03:54, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Swiss Navy

Delete. Switzerland has no navy as it landlocked, and the meagre info in the article can be included in the article on the military of Switzerland Thesocialistesq 19:18, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

• Redirect to Merchant Marine of Switzerland, as per Sandstein.Thesocialistesq 03:58, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

• We do not need articles on things that don't exist. I've merged the content into military of Switzerland, except for the sentence about the civilian merchants. Recommend replacing Swiss Navy with a redirect to military of Switzerland. - Samsara _contrib ^talk 19:48, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect per Samsara. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 20:04, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect per nom.--み使い Mitsukai 20:16, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, until the sentence about the civilian merchants is merged somewhere; the sheer existence of a merchant navy for a landlocked country is interesting and could be developed; if a new home is found for this information, then ok for Redirect. Schutz 20:39, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Keep or Move to Swiss merchant navy (to indicate clearly that we are not talking about a military navy). I was going to suggest to probe Talk:Switzerland for insights about where to put this information, but in the meantime, I have found some information about the topic (see [1]), and I think the existence of a specific article is legitimate. I volunteer to expand it if kept. Schutz 21:55, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Redirect to Merchant Marine of Switzerland, as per Sandstein below. Schutz 22:08, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

• Do per Schultz. At least in one period of a time Swiss merchant marine was the largest among landlocked countries (Czechoslovakia was second). Pavel Vozenilek 21:33, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect is OK with me; I've put the civilian info into the newly-created article Merchant Marine of Switzerland. The Swiss Navy article was originally a rather silly article referring to those motor boats as the Swiss Navy. Not thinking of redirects, I added the civilian fleet part so as not to have to bother with an AfD... But then who knows? A Swiss zeppelin navy may well rule Europe's skies some day! :-) Sandstein 21:57, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Merchant Marine of Switzerland. The entire content of the navy article, including the info about the army patrol boats could go into that article just as happily as part of the explanation of why the Swiss have no Navy-- one of the cited links about the Swiss flag seems to indicate that there was an issue in maritime law at one time whether a landlocked country could fly its flag on merchant vessels. Crypticfirefly 06:00, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect To Military of Switzerland, preferably to the "Naval Patrol" section heading I just added. Navies and merchant marines are two very different things, it is functionally wrong to send a "Navy" redirect to a merchant marine page. Georgewilliamherbert 00:20, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
• I am inclined to agree with George. However, as a possible solution, merge and redirect to "Military of Switzerland", then disambiglink out from the logical location of this merge to "Merchant Marine of Switzerland". -- Saberwyn 03:02, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.